Great Read: 'The day I beat Ronnie Peterson'

Meeting – and beating – your hero | View in browser FROM OUR ARCHIVE, APRIL 1999 | EDDIE CHEEVER 'The day I beat Ronnie Peterson' – My greatest race: Eddie Cheever Happy birthday to 1998 Indianapolis 500 winner Eddie Cheever. Today's Great Read sees him choose his best race, in which he battled his hero. The most frightening part of beating Ronnie Peterson in an identical car around the old Nürburgring was the subsequent trip with him to the airport I've had a funny career. I started like gangbusters, and always came very close but never got all I wanted. So to form my own team, do it right, and win the Indy 500 last year was very gratifying. Twenty five years of nightmares gone in three and half hours. People criticise the Indy Racing League, but we have a lot of young drivers who've done all their training on dirt tracks in Kansas and Texas, and believe you me, they know how to get around an oval. Oval racing is a lot about courage and strategy – it's totally different from what I was trained for. I don't remember the last time I turned right at a race track. Well, I have turned right, but shortly thereafter I was in a hospital… READ MORE PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES SUBSCRIBER CONTENT | DAMIEN SMITH The Arrows that should have won: Reuniting A11 and the 1989 team         Arrows was the archetypal underdog of Formula 1 in a span of time that crossed four decades. But in 1989, its striking A11 almost hit the target, as Damien Smith recounts from a special team reunion READ MORE Share this newsletter: Stay up to date  Update your preferences to select the content you wish to receive.   UPDATE NOW  Unsubscribe | Privacy Policy. Motor Sport magazine, 18-20 Rosemont Road, London, NW3 6NE Company no. 05471049, Vat no. 871 544 60